Step into the inspiring world of faith, courage, and legend with Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew by Robert K. Root. This BOOK brings to life the legendary story of St. Andrew, exploring his devotion, trials, and unwavering commitment to spreading his spiritual message, offering listeners both historical insight and timeless inspiration.Root’s retelling is rich with narrative clarity, vivid imagery, and devotional depth, and the B...

Robert K. Root, as editor, revives the spiritual and heroic depth of early English literature in Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew, presenting a powerful blend of faith, courage, and poetic devotion. This work draws the reader into a world where divine mission and human endurance are inseparably bound, revealing how sacred purpose transforms fear into strength. At the core of Andreas is the journey of St. Andrew, whose unwavering obedience to God leads him through peril, imprisonment, and ...

Discover the cognitive tools that lead to creative thinking and problem-solving with this "well-written and easy-to-follow" guide ( Library Journal).Explore the "thinking tools" of extraordinary people, from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Mozart and Virginia Woolf, and learn how you can practice the same imaginative skills to become your creative best. With engaging narratives and examples, Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein investigate cognitive tools...

First published in 1916, The Textual Tradition of Chaucer’s Troilus compares the best unprinted manuscripts of Chaucer’s Troilus with the printed texts. The purpose of the volume is to evaluate eighteen manuscripts, to determine so far as may be their relation to one another and to Chaucer’s original, and to show how they are to be used for the establishing of a critical text. This book will be of interest to students of literature, linguistics and history.

Scientists as artists?! The idea may sound strange, even unlikely, yet The Arts of Eminent Scientists demonstrates that many of the world's most respected scientists have been extraordinarily talented amateur, even professional, artists.56 scientists, 40 of them Nobel Prize winners or nominees, produced the rarely- or never-before-seen paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, textile art, jewelry, and bespoke puzzles that illustrate this book. A brief text describes the motivations...

Nonfiction_the 'fourth genre' (along with poetry, fiction, and drama)_is a literary field affecting bestseller lists, writing programs, writers' workshops, and conferences on the study of creative writing, composition/rhetoric, and literature. It is often labeled and/or limited as 'creative' or 'literary' nonfiction and subdivided into essay, memoir, literary journalism, personal cultural criticism, and narratives of nature and travel. A vital and growing form, nonfiction has, until now, n...

In The Art of Touch: Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, the unique voices of thirty-nine of some of the most creative thinkers of our times have been brought together to consider the profound impact of one of our five main senses: touch.Psychologists, healers, massage therapists, academics, creative writers, and others reflect on or tell personal stories about what it means to be able to touch or experience touch, or to have to go without it—as so many did and ...

Eating clay, drinking urine, applying honey to deep wounds and mere plaster to crushed these are all folk remedies for ailments, passed on through the generations and thoroughly discounted by modern science. It is too bad, write scientist-historian couple Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein, who deplore the loss of proven methods developed without the blessing of the academy, noting that "formal academic systems are only one of many ways in which knowledge is discovered, accumulated, and tra...

Reflecting on how a student’s parents met because of a fly ball to center field in a summer softball game, author Robert Root wondered how the lives of that student’s parents and of the student himself would have changed had the batter bunted or struck out. Haunted by this pure example of happenstance, he began to ponder his own existence, dependent in part on geology (the Niagara Escarpment) and history (the Erie Canal). He wondered how happenstance had influenced the course of his parent...

Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew is a captivating Old English poem that weaves together faith and heroism in a narrative that centers on the life and martyrdom of Saint Andrew, one of Jesus Christ's apostles. Composed in the 10th century, the text reflects the literary style of alliterative verse typical of Anglo-Saxon literature, echoing themes of redemption, divine grace, and the eternal struggle between good and evil. The poem showcases a rich tapestry of mythological elements, infusin...

A world traveler, Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic travel narrative, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. This work inspired Robert Root’s own discovery of Colorado’s Front Range following his move from the flatlands of Michigan. In this elegantly written book, Root retraces Bird’s three-month journey, seeking to understand what Colorado meant to her—and what it would come to mean for him.Following Isabella is a work of i...

The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film...